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Listener comments!

Tue. 6/26/12 8:19pm
G:
You got rid of a pompous puritan. Good work. Use that as a test on future dayes.

Tue. 6/26/12 8:20pm
G:
dates, oops :-)

Tue. 6/26/12 8:21pm
Adolf:
We get it! ;)

Tue. 6/26/12 8:21pm
josh:
she sounds like an ass! heave ho! (to quote Dr. Scharpling!) ... i want to hear how you wound up on a date with her in the first place.. I'm amazed the conversation got to the date stage!

Tue. 6/26/12 8:30pm
G:
@josh: It might be her one and only moment of immortality. Her 45 seconds of fame, or infamy :-)

Tue. 6/26/12 8:31pm
G:
I'm guessing the j in your long German title should be an s. It's probably one of those oldtimey "long" s's.

Tue. 6/26/12 8:32pm
G:
If she was a lawyer, DON'T send her an mp3 :-)

Tue. 6/26/12 8:36pm
G:
I take back my 8:31 comment. The title's some variety of Schweizerdeutsch (Swiss German). All my spelling bets are off. I only know a weensy bit of Zuritutsch (Zurich German), and the spelling varies throughout the country.

Tue. 6/26/12 8:46pm
julia:
mother and father pay all the bills, and we have all the fun. well hey, that ought to nip all that millenial resentment in the bud

Tue. 6/26/12 8:47pm
julia:
or not

Tue. 6/26/12 8:52pm
G:
"Woodman Spare that Tree" is an old chestnut first written and set to music in 1837. It was often used in schools up to the mid 1900s. "Rocky and Bullwinkle" even did a cartoon version of it in the early 60s.

The author's a NYC journalist:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Pope_Morris

Tue. 6/26/12 8:56pm
julia:
yay! thanks mac

Tue. 6/26/12 9:05pm
Sam:
Some people -- some gals -- just love the 'high dudgeon.' You're a historian, not an eggshell-walker.